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| Labour suspends activist over alleged anti-Semitic comments | Labour suspends activist over alleged anti-Semitic comments |
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| A senior Labour figure in Kent has been suspended from the party over alleged anti-Semitic comments on Facebook. | A senior Labour figure in Kent has been suspended from the party over alleged anti-Semitic comments on Facebook. |
| South Thanet vice chair Jackie Walker wrote about "the African holocaust" and Jews as "chief financiers of the sugar and slave trade". | South Thanet vice chair Jackie Walker wrote about "the African holocaust" and Jews as "chief financiers of the sugar and slave trade". |
| A Labour Party spokesman said: "Jacqueline Walker has been suspended by the Labour Party today pending an investigation." | A Labour Party spokesman said: "Jacqueline Walker has been suspended by the Labour Party today pending an investigation." |
| Ms Walker, who is a member of the Momentum movement, has not commented. | Ms Walker, who is a member of the Momentum movement, has not commented. |
| The comments were posted in February. | The comments were posted in February. |
| The Jewish Chronicle reported that it alerted Labour to her comments and said a new poll suggested support for Labour among British Jews had fallen to 8.5%. | |
| Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has set up an independent inquiry into anti-Semitism and racism in the party. | |
| Last week former London mayor Ken Livingstone was suspended from the party for making comments about Hitler while speaking in defence of MP Naz Shah, who had earlier been suspended over accusations she was anti-Semitic. |